There’s nothing quite like SDCC. I’ve been to conventions of all types—big ones, small ones, first-year conventions, conventions running for longer than I’ve been alive—but few conventions have evolved quite like this one. S

With summer nationals still many months away, there’s plenty of time for character growth; most of it goes to Rin, but everyone else gets much more development than they had in the previous season, as well.

From something that started as an H-game with questionable writing, the Fate franchise has grown incredibly. This adaptation will be the third anime adaptation of Fate/Stay Night, and all in less than ten years. However, as many fans will argue, it’s a necessary one.

No one was surprised that Free! got a second season, but I was sure surprised to see a season called “Eternal Summer” start in the middle of winter. It makes some sense—no one on the Iwatobi team was a third-year (and thus in danger of graduating), but their rivals at Samezuka had to say farewell to their captain and introduce a new one.

It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here! The Sailor Moon reboot we’ve all been waiting for. It seemed almost impossible that a franchise as big and as popular as Sailor Moon had gone so long without any sort of extra story or remake (as fantastic as the stage shows and live action series are, they’re just not quite the same), but after 23 long years, the anime is finally getting a modern treatment!